Monday, July 30, 2012

THE CIRCLING (photo) & CAN OR CANT (dreamku series) by Roswila

two men, neither of
whom do I like, one an actor
the other an author –
each in his turn loftily insists
on my presence and attention

the redhead has enough
presence of his own to see
my lack of interest
he takes his act elsewhere --
enter: the pushy author

the nerve of some men!
yet I still can’t seem to say no
to staying and
listening to the author’s
lecture to his circle of friends

it’s kind to call them
friends, this insufferable cult
their cant’s obvious
then I realize that I
can just get up and leave

various people
around the room try to re-
engage me as I stand
but what do I care what they
say or think about me

I pause just long enough to steep
in victory: I truly can’t care less

[five tanka capped by a two-liner written and dreamed on 7-2-12. Well, those last two lines are a bit of an over-statement. But in as much as imagining/visualizing doing something fires up the same neural networks in our brains as if we were physically doing it, this dream gives me hope. It’s like a dress rehearsal. Photo “The Circling” by Roswila]

BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO DREAMKU (& PHOTOS): The dream-based poems posted on this blog -- dreamku, tanka, two-liners, and monoku -- are offered in the spirit of collaboration. I have done my part. Now it’s your turn to jump in and see what comes up for you. I.e., there is no right or wrong way to understand or interpret any of these dream offerings. Even my own understandings of them change over time. And it gives me joy when a reader sees something in any of them that I have not.

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About Me

Retired, I'm grateful to indulge in daily blogging, taking digital photos, writing poetry every day, and other creative efforts as the spirit grabs me. I also enjoy reading my poems and sometimes improvising on one of the musical instruments in my collection (e.g. didjeridu or kalimba), in our retirement community's regular Talent Shows. And I also occasionally play a role in one of
our radio plays, written by a resident,
and read on stage as if an actual radio show.

"Ganesh dances joyfully,
each step out of now into now again;
each footprint filling to overflowing with kindness.
Remover of Obstacles, clear me out of my own way;
teach me how to dance lightly through life,
how to spill over with love." -- prayer by Roswila

"The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else." -- e.e. cummings (poet & painter)

"There's a thin line between dreaming and waking... The line is not hard and fast. It's more like passing through a waterfall. Really it's just a two sided organic system; on the surface individual blades of grass, underneath it's an intertwined mass of roots we can barely comprehend." -- As explained on the T.V. series FALLING WATER

"You're only paranoid if you're wrong." -- quoted in a play by Steven Dietz

"Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth." -- Pema Chodron

"The past is not dead, it is not even past." -- William Faulkner

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." -- Twyla Tharp (dancer/choreographer)

"Wisdom begins in wonder." -- Socrates

"Before the light which all things give off dies in the heart it must be expressed." -- Basho (haiku Master)

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.” -- Alfred Adler

"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert" -- attributed to Arthur C. Clarke (author)

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." -- Richard Feynman (physicist)